“I….don’t know. I want to be with you but I need to be safe.” Blaine said his voice thick with emotion.

Kurt chewed on his bottom lip not saying anything in reply and clearly trying not to actually cry.

                “Could we just pretend to break up?” Blaine asked.

                “And what? Never go out? Hide? I can’t do that Blaine, maybe you have no problem hiding but I can’t, I won’t.”  Kurt spat.

                “Tell me what to do then Kurt! Tell me do I pick my safety or the boy I love? Because I have no clue!” Blaine spat back.

                “I don’t know.” Kurt said clearly frustrated.

                “God. I just wish none of this ever happened.” Blain muttered.

Kurt looked at Blaine his eyes filled with hurt.

                “I don’t mean this,” Blaine said gesturing between himself and Kurt, “I mean the stuff with Karofsky.”

                “Yeah, I know. I just…I feel guilty; if it wasn’t for me then you wouldn’t be in this situation.” Kurt said quietly.

                “Have you ever heard of Dalton Academy?” Blaine said seemingly out of the blue.

                “Um…no.” Kurt said.

                “It’s a private school with a zero tolerance policy towards bulling, and it’s enforced.” Blaine said.

                “It sounds wonderful.” Kurt said thinking of the implications.

“I was supposed to go there after camp but then my dad’s company hit a rough patch and he had to take a pay cut and even with mom working too we just couldn’t afford it but we have too much money to qualify for a scholarship. If I was there things would be different, things would be better, I’d be safe there.”  Blaine said lost in thought.

“If you were there we wouldn’t be together.” Kurt said softly.

“You don’t know that, I think we would have still found each other.”

“When did Brittany and Santana leave?” Kurt asked looking around the room hoping for a break in the conversation, a conversation he knew wasn’t going to lead to a happy ending with tons of making out.

“Huh? Oh, I don’t know.”

The two boys looked at each other in silence for a while.

                “I’m breaking up with you.” Kurt said softly.

                “No, please baby, no.” Blaine begged.

                “I have to; I can’t put my happiness over your safety.” Kurt said placing his hand on Blaine’s cheek.

                “But we don’t even know he’ll keep his word. He could still come after me.”

                “We do know that if we stay together he’ll definitely come after you.” Kurt reasoned.

                “I’d rather face a beating from him every day then lose you.” Blaine told Kurt.

                “I couldn’t handle you having to go through that Blaine. It would kill me.”

                “This kills me.”

                “No, this hurts but we’ll survive. And once we’re both in New York we can be together.” Kurt said.

                “Promise?”

                “Promise.”

                “You won’t forget about me when I go back to being invisible?”

                “Of course I won’t!”

                “Can I have one last kiss?” Blaine asked.

                “Of course.” Kurt said leaning in, he kissed Blaine and tried to put all his feelings for Blaine into the kiss.

                “I should go.” Kurt said when their kiss broke.

                “No. Stay.”

                “If I stay now I won’t ever be able to walk away.”

                “That works for me.”

                “I’m sorry but I have to go now Blaine, you know that.”

                “I know.”

Kurt slowly and silently turned and walked towards Blaine’s bedroom door and before Blaine knew it he was gone. Blaine sat on the foot his bed and placed his head in his hands. His life had changed so much in the last little while and now it was about to change back and there was nothing he could do to stop it from happening. The more he thought of it the more he wanted to curl up in his bed and cry, so that’s what he did. He cried for the loss of his relationship with Kurt, he cried because he knew he’d be once again friendless, and he cried because he really really didn’t want to go back to be invisible. He cried so much that his contacts began to hurt his eyes; he dragged himself out of bed and took them out replacing them with his old glasses. He sighed an resolved to himself to just pretend the last few weeks were all a dream, it can’t hurt if it didn’t really happen right? But it did happen and now he lost it all and it hurt like hell.